The Minister and Me(1976)

Name: The Minister and Me
Director: Miguel M. Delgado
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1976-01-01
Duration: 109 min
Cast: Cantinflas, Chela Castro, Lucía Méndez, Ángel Garasa, Manolita Saval

Cantinflas Chela Castro Lucía Méndez Ángel Garasa Manolita Saval

Mateo Melgarejo is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.